Originally Posted by grindy

I've always felt that Beefheart was doing a totally different thing from Zappa.
I love Beefheart and he influenced so much of my favourite music, but I have to admit I don't listen to him that often and TMR, while great, is a little too long and Lick My Decals Off, Baby is more often my album of choice.

Jazz From Hell has great compositions, but the sound of the synclavier is at times slightly annoying.
Uncle Meat is one of Zappas best, but all those skits and interludes and little stories are something that always bothers me about Zappa, I like his music far more than his humour.

Originally Posted by DeadChannel

The overuse of babe/baby, the lack of any sort of discernible originality, the melodrama and the general sense of an especially heinous sort of hardcore vapid stupidity all make me want to jab my eyes out with a drill-press and then hang myself from the CN Tower with an electrified rope that sends shocks in excess of 10,000 volts through my body as I slowly die. While listening to Dream Theater.